Today we bring you two super simple salad recipes. The first one, a chef salad, is a common lunch that I throw together whenever we’re looking for a quick cold meal. It pairs well with garlic bread or a baked potato. The second one is new to our menu and modeled after a salad we ate at a local Italian restaurant.
What is your favorite way to top a salad?
Chef Salad
A common lunch that I throw together whenever we’re looking for a quick cold meal. It pairs well with garlic bread or a baked potato.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds lettuce romaine, iceberg or mixed
- 1/4 head red cabbage shredded
- 4 carrots peeled and diced
- 4 ounce cheddar cheese shredded
- 4 ounce ham diced
- 4 hard boiled eggs peeled and diced
- 1 cucumber peeled and diced
- 1 cup croutons
- salt to taste
- pepper fresh ground, to taste
- 1 cup ranch dressing or your favorite dressing
Instructions
- Tear the lettuce into bite sized pieces.
- Add lettuce, cabbage, and carrots to a bowl. Season with fresh ground pepper.
- Toss with 1/2 cup of dressing.
- Divide lettuce mixture between 4 plates.
- Top with cheese, ham, eggs sprinkled with salt, cucumber, and croutons.
- Serve with remaining dressing on the side.
Italian Salad
Don't like the traditional boring salad you find at restaurants? This one has a delightful mix of Italian meats and cheeses.
Ingredients
- 1/2 head romaine lettuce roughly chopped
- 1/4 head iceberg lettuce roughly chopped
- 1.5 ounce Italian salami deli thin sliced
- 1.5 ounce pepperoni deli thin sliced
- 3 ounce mozzarella cheese deli thin sliced
- 2 large tomatoes sliced
- 4 whole pepperoncini
- 2 ounce sliced black olives
- 1/2 small red onion thinly sliced
- 1/3 cup Parmesan grated
- 1 cup Italian dressing
Instructions
- Divide the lettuce between four plates.
- Arrange the salami, pepperoni, mozzarella cheese and tomato slices covering the lettuce.
- Top with pepperoncini, black olives, and onions.
- Sprinkle Parmesan over entire salad.
- Serve with dressing on the side.
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I’m always on the hunt for new recipes. Thanks, pinning these for later. I love salads
I’m always on the hunt for new recipes. Thanks, pinning these for later.
My favorite way to top a salad is with crumbled bacon or sunflower seeds; something that will give me some crunch! I might have to try that recipe on the right. Tasty!
Thank you for the recepies- It sounds really good and tasty. I think I will try them 🙂
These salads look good! I have some lettuce in the fridge that needs used. I think even a simple addition of salami would make the salad so good. I have some in my freezer that I think I will have to pull out and add. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love salads. These both look really yummy and don’t require much prep time. I think I might give the Italian Salad a try.
Both sound yummy! Its funny, I love salad in restaurants but I never like them at home. I usually make one up every night for my husband but not me. When I do, I love crasins, crumbled feta and walnuts.
We are just not salad eaters in my household.
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I love salad! We have just added a chicken salad to our dinner menu that even the kids love (which totally suprises me.) It’s such a refreshing, light, filling, and easy meal most times. Thanks for these new recipes, I’ll have to give them a try. I always need new dinner menus.
I love salad! Thank you for these new recipes. I will be trying these out soon 🙂
I am always looking for a new way to do a salad! Right now my favorite topping are raisins or craisins. Thanks for the new recipes 🙂
Great recipes- I’ll have to try them both this week! We are salad lovers in our house! 🙂
I’m in a taco salad crazy right now. Thankfully it’s one my kids eat too!
I have a taco salad recipe in my drafts. I just need to get a couple great photos of our next one so I can share the recipe.
I get bored with salad, which is costing me a lotta expensive lettuce going to wasted. I will definitely try the chef salad.
Yum! I love salads! I have a big salad for lunch just about every day. I prefer chef salads, but maybe I’ll have to mix it up and try a variation of your Italian salad sometime.
Yum! Those salads look yummy! I’m a huge fan of salads when the weather gets hot, or on nights when you just don’t feel like cooking. 🙂
I must admit I don’t eat a lot of salads but they do look lovely. I can’t wait for the weather to warm up a bit so that I can give them a try.
These both look amazing. I cannot wait to add them into our summer menu.
These salads look delish! I was just thinking about what salad to make this weekend for the family. Thanks so much for posting!
That Italian Salad sounds heavenly! I am a big Caesar salad person and that’s about the extent of it. Oh, antipasta when I’m really in the mood. I will have to try the Italian salad… I’m sure I could get hubby to try it too! 🙂
Sometimes we server Caesar salads with our eggplant parmesan. It’s a great combination.
Both salads sound delicious. I usually have the most boring salads – lettuce, cheese, dressing. I’ve got to start making interesting salads.
Growing up, that’s how I did salad. Iceberg, cheese, imitation bacon bits, and croutons. I smothered it in ranch dressing because I didn’t like the taste of salad. Now that I’ve experimented with other lettuce types and added interesting toppings, I use way less dressing and get more taste out of the salad itself.
Wow! I tried the recipe for the Italian salad, it was so delicious! We’ve been eating way too little salads lately. I’m so boring when it comes to salad but I loved your recipe. Thanks for sharing it 🙂
Yay! We’ve just started adding more salads into our meals. It’s nice to have a filling meal that isn’t too heavy for those hot summer days.
I love printable recipes…I’m so much more likely to try them!! Thanks 🙂
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Both salads sound delicious! I love food so it comes by no surprise that I find them yummy. 🙂
I’m thrilled that you find them yummy.
I haven’t made salads in a long time. I cant wait to try these out. Thank you for posting these. It will be fun to change things up a bit.
Salads are perfect for the hotter days that are bound to happen soon.
These look good. I’m always looking for interesting new salad recipes and I will put the Italian Salad on my list of salads to try. Sometimes I add raisins or chopped olives, depending on what’s in the cupboard or fridge.
You might also like our Tomato Cucumber Onion Salad. It’s fantastic!
These recipes look yummy! Plus I love the layout of your blog and how the recipes have the dotted line around it in case you want to print and cut it out. Very cute!
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I love salads and try to eat one most days. They make a simple meal so complete or make a good meal on their own. Thanks for this, I will give them a try.
I’m amazed by the amount of people who eat salad daily. I don’t know if I could do it. I’d worry about getting bored with so much salad. I’d bet changing it up is a necessity to avoid that rut.
I’m not creative when it comes to the “topping” part of a salad, we usually have croutons.
But when it’s time to make a salad, I love to add in creative things, like dried cranberries, walnuts, almonds, different greens, cheeses (feta is my current fave). Also meat! We are carnivores and if I serve a salad without meat, my teen asks me what happened to the meat 🙂
We always have some type of meat in our salad even if it’s just real bacon bits.
Salad and Soup have to rate as my favorite meal but it is easy to get stuck in the rut of creating the same one over and over. For those who don’t LOVE salad as much as I do in my family, it is even harder to enjoy the monotony. 🙂 Thanks for sharing 2 yummy recipes. The Italian Salad looks divine and even the most reluctant herbivore in my home may find this tempting.
When the local restaurant that inspired the Italian salad recipe put the salad in front of me, I wasn’t sure what to think of it. I’ve always gotten such basic salads at restaurants so it was refreshing to see such thought put into a simple salad. That’s why I shared it, to help people get out of their salad rut.
Both of these look tasty! I like the toppings on the chef as my favorites but I would definitely try the Italian
My favorite is the chef as well but the Italian is great for alternating so you don’t get bored.
Hi Angi, the salads sound really tasty. Since I’m a vegetarian, I usually top my salads with hard boiled eggs and sunflower seed bac’n bits. I make a homemade salad dressing using plain yogurt, apple cider vinegar, salt and stevia. Sometime I add a little cayenne or some herbs like basil and oregano, or nutritional yeast and Tamari sauce.
We make our dressings, too. No packets needed when you already have all the spices in the cupboard. Maybe I’ll write those up and share them, too!
My hubby and I love salads- We have a huge bowl every single day. We’re quite simple and usually go for lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and avocado with olive oil and lemon dressing. Your recipes look yummie!
Another great simple salad. I’ve never tried lemon dressing but it sounds amazing.
Thanks for the giveaway. I don’t know if I ever liked NeuYear–I’ll go check, but the button for them for Facebook wouldn’t pop up. The salads looked great!
Thanks for letting me know the giveaway form wasn’t working. It’s fixed now!
I love salads, but my hubby gets tired of them. I love the lettuce &/or spinach with avocado, black beans, black olives, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, shredded cheese, some grilled chicken, topped w/ chip pieces. So basically just throw it all in a bowl & mix it up!
But I also changed it up. These 2 recipes actually look really good. I am going to pin them
And what an awesome giveaway you have there
We love mixing up the greens for different flavors. I love avocados so much but I’ve never put them on a salad unless you count guacamole on a taco salad. It’s a great idea!
The Italian Salad looks yummy! It would go great with a fresh baguette. I love to put sunflower seeds and dried craisins in my salad!
Or any type of fresh bread straight from the oven. I’ve never thought about putting craisins on a salad. I might try that option next time.
Those look like very refreshing salads. I like that they are simple and seem easy and quick to put together 🙂
Simple and quick are my go to options for meals. I certainly don’t want to be slaving away in the kitchen all day.
These sound good. I am always looking for salad recipes 🙂
I have a few more salad recipes just waiting for photos. Now that’s an excuse to make some more yummy salads for lunch soon.
I love salads and will eat almost any! Love your recipes…thanks so much for sharing them!
We’ve just started experimenting with salad toppings for more filling meals and to increase our vegetable intake.
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We have a Salad bar night. I offer all kinds of toppings and everyone creates their own. This is one of my kids’ favorites right next to breakfast for dinner night. A great way to get a good heaping of veggies in their bellies. One of my new favorites is adding chopped/sliced apples or avocado.
I really love the Salad Bar Night idea. I am definitely going to give that a try. Breakfast for dinner sounds equally good:)
We’ve never done a salad bar night but it sounds like a wonderful idea. We, also, love breakfast for dinner.
Both salads sound so yummy. I can not wait to share them with David as he loves Salads in the Summer. Thanks for sharing them with us.
We love salads for those hot summer days, too.